Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 2 | I also wanted to work for a firm with work under the legal aid scheme . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , it was fun , ’ she answered huskily , ‘ but I never wanted to act for a living — ’ |
| 4 | He overbore Neville Chamberlain and the others who still wanted to ride for a fall on a bold safeguarding policy . |
| 5 | Jenny did not reappear and Sara began to think that she really had gone for a walk . |
| 6 | Undeterred by the Challenge 's ‘ toughest ever ’ billing , she immediately decided to apply for a place . |
| 7 | She married a colleague who then left to work for a rival firm . |
| 8 | Although she had n't expected to , she actually managed to sleep for a few hours that night . |
| 9 | Pearce said : ‘ We always planned to try for a drop goal whenever we were in the French 20 metre area . |
| 10 | Yet morale in the European shops was never as high as in their UK counterparts and they often had to beg for a booster visit from their patrons . |
| 11 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 12 | He also appeared to call for a referendum on Maastricht — against Government policy . |
| 13 | He immediately began studying for a new career in the treatment room . |